It's BK3. Someone at MS finally wised up and realized that the game wouldn't even recoup its budget in sales. Completely wrong audience for the 360 (as Viva Pinata showed us already).
And Rare can't go 3rd party because they can't survive on their own. They always go over budget and past deadlines. Do you realize they had 5 games announced for the GC and only released ONE?
Rare needs a host to suck money out of in order to survive, hence why Nintendo sold them so they could go suck money out of MS instead and hence why MS is probably about ready to dissolve the company and sell off its assets. Yes, I realize Rare says it's not BK3, but I'll believe it when I see it.
I know a lot of people here were fans of Rare. God knows I was and I wanted to see BK in SSBM, but it's time to face facts: the talent has left Rare. It's over. This is like the situation where a friend or loved one has become a zombie and is shambling toward you, hellbent on biting your jugular out. They aren't Rare anymore. They're something else now.
Aim for the head.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
